Mon, Sep 22: Mortality Transitions[RN]
• Preston, Samuel H. and Etienne van
de Walle. 1978. “Urban French Mortality in the Nineteenth Century.”
Population Studies 32:275-297.
• Johansson, S.R. and Carl Mosk. 1987.
“Exposure, Resistance and Life Expectancy: Disease and Death During
the Economic Development of Japan, 1900-1960.” Population Studies
41:207-235.

Mon, Nov 10: Fertility Patterns in the West
• Morgan, S. Phillip. 1996. “Fertility
Trends and Differentials: Characteristic Features of Modern American
Fertility.” Pp. 19-63 in J.B. Casterline, R.D. Lee, and K.A. Foote,
(eds.), Fertility in the United States: New Patterns, New Theories.
Supplement to Population and Development Review 22. JSTOR
• S. Philip Morgan and Miles G. Taylor.
2006. “Low Fertility at the Turn of the Twenty First Century.”
Annual Review of Sociology 32:16.1-16.25.

Wed, Nov 12: Family Planning Research[RN]
• Casterline, John and Steven Sinding.
2000. “Unmet need for family planning and implications for population
policy.” Population and Development Review 26: 691-724.
• Tsui, Amy Ong . 2001. “Population
policies, family planning programs, and fertility: the record.”
In Rodolfo Bulatao and John B. Casterline, eds., Global Fertility
Decline. A supplement to vol 27 of Population and Development Review,
pp. 184-204 New York: The Population Council. **if you have problems
accessing this article, use JSTOR's advanced search

Mon, Nov 17: Abortion and Contraceptive Use[RN][Slides]
• Henshaw, Stanley K. 1990. “Induced
Abortion: A World Review, 1990.” Family Planning Perspectives 22:76-89.
• Westoff, Charles and Akinrinola
Bankole. 2000. “Trends in the Demand for Family Limitation in Developing
Countries.” International Family Planning Perspectives 26:56-62.
• Piccinino, Linda J. and William
D. Mosher. 1998. “Trends in Contraceptive Use in the United States:
1982-1995. Family Planning Perspectives 30(1):4-10.

Wed, Dec 3: Population and Environment
• Pebley, Anne R. 1998. “Demography
and the Environment.” Demography 35(4):377-89.
• Liu, J. et al. 2005. “Beyond Population
Size: Examining Intricate Interactions among Population Structure,
Land Use, and Environment in Wolong Nature Reserve, China.” in Entwisle
& Stern (Eds.), Population, Land
Use, and Environment: Research Directions. NOTE: If
you are logged in through UNC's library website, you can access this book
in pdf version. This link should take you to the edited volume, and
then you can look for the right chapter.
• Ann E. Biddlecom, William G. Axinn,
and Jennifer S. Barber. 2005. "Environmental Effects on Family
Size Preferences and Subsequent Reproductive Behavior in Nepal."
Population and Environment 26(3):183-206.